Jump to content
Why become a member? ×

tauzero

⭐Supporting Member⭐
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    9,322

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    30

 Content Type 

Everything posted by tauzero

  1. tauzero
    [quote name='Prime_BASS' post='867722' date='Jun 15 2010, 08:06 AM']I also feel the same about guitarists who use Drop D tuning. I'm aware that some player do it for the low D, however my bands drummer wrote a song in drop D because he can't play in standard.[/quote] Which drum did he tune down to D?
  2. tauzero
    [quote name='Davetbass' post='866409' date='Jun 13 2010, 08:55 PM']You never see someone that's gone from guitar to bass play with their fingers do you? It's always a pick.[/quote] When I switched from guitar to bass, I went straight to fingers. Mind you, I could fingerpick reasonably on a guitar anyway.
  3. tauzero
    [quote name='Starless' post='864598' date='Jun 11 2010, 07:05 PM']So what do I do? How much longer should I persevere with an instrument because of it's coolness factor, when I just don't enjoy playing it? Is six months of hammering away enough?[/quote] About five months, thirty days, and 23 hours too much. If it was close to what you'd be most comfortable with, you'd have settled in to it by now. The fact you're still not happy with it points to it being quite different to what you're looking for.
  4. tauzero
    [quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='865822' date='Jun 13 2010, 11:48 AM']if I had custom shop money, I'd be ordering another Status, LOL![/quote] So that's another vote for "whichever one I could resell for the most money" then...
  5. tauzero
    Warwick did a Jack Bruce sig bass which (looking at the neck dimensions) seems to have the nice slim neck of the early stuff. One minor point that they may have overlooked in producing a Jack Bruce sig Thumb was the number of frets. It has 26 more than JB's own Thumb... Oh, and JB's original Thumb has the one-piece bridge that Warwick for some reason ditched: So, how close should a sig instrument be to the actual instrument that inspired it?
  6. tauzero
    Light sabre: Lightwave Sabre Millennium Falcon: Fender Precision Dagobah: [url="http://www.nhbassfest.com/"]Manchester, New Hampshire[/url]
  7. tauzero
    [quote name='SteveO' post='866706' date='Jun 14 2010, 07:34 AM']For the multi instrumentalists, how long did it take to memorise the different chord shapes?[/quote] What, both of them? I started on guitar and took up bass later, which meant I had an idea of what notes were in various chords and scales. It's easier translating guitar knowledge to bass than to keyboards. I think it would be a bit more difficult going from bass to guitar, but I also feel that it's useful for a bassist to have at least a basic grasp of another melodic instrument. Drums would probably be handy too - it's something I'd like to have some ability at but have never got round to.
  8. tauzero
    [quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='866463' date='Jun 13 2010, 09:24 PM']You can always spot the guitarist trying to play a bass - They always hook their thumb over the top of the neck, play with that slanty hand (shockingly bad technique!) & have no clue what their fourth finger is for![/quote] You missed out "fret with the middle finger and slide it up and down the fretboard".
  9. tauzero
    I used to play in the house band for an open mic night. One night I was late getting there and the guitarist, a brilliant jazz player, had taken up the bass. It, er, wasn't very good. As soon as he could, he shoved the bass at me and told me to take over. There's a guitarist I know who teaches guitar and who is a good player. On a local bands web forum, a band was bemoaning the fact that they couldn't play a gig because their bassist couldn't make it. I wish I remember his exact words, but it was along the lines of "give a guitarist a CD and he'll learn the bass lines in ten minutes". I was too dumbfounded to reply to that...
  10. tauzero
    [quote name='Marvin' post='862431' date='Jun 9 2010, 06:03 PM']1. Trace 2. POD 3. V Bass I'm making a wild guess BTW. If I'm right do I get a Basschat t-shirt?[/quote] My wild guess is 1. POD, 2. V Bass, 3. Trace. I already have a Basschat T-shirt.
  11. tauzero
    [quote name='bubinga5' post='862627' date='Jun 9 2010, 09:22 PM']Just wondered what you guys would have out of these...always interested to hear you guys views..hope Nic doesnt mind me using his pics.. Fender CS 62 Lake Placid Blue Fender CS 62 Shell Pink Fender 64 NOS TTS[/quote] Whichever one I could resell for the highest price so I could get a decent bass.
  12. tauzero
    [quote name='OldGit' post='863537' date='Jun 10 2010, 06:04 PM']The worrying thing there is the wiring looks modern. There's no traditional fluffy wires. There's red and green wires, grey and white modern wires from the pup ....[/quote] Given that drilling for another pot, it might be that it was wired differently at some point in its history and then rewired to standard.
  13. tauzero
    I can feel my back going from just looking at this and that Trace V8.
  14. tauzero
    I use smiley face on my amp (Superfly 1000 through a Tech Soundsystems 4x10, so pretty hi-fi) but it's this and not this
  15. tauzero
    If Mrs Zero buys me a Fender for my birthday, I'll know she thinks I'm getting old.
  16. tauzero
    Looks like it needs relicing. It does prove one thing though - Fenders more than six months old needn't look like sh*t if you take care of them.
  17. tauzero
    My experiences with interparcel.com have generally been good, but the last item I sent, I used the HDNL courier service and that was very slow - took a week for a non-guaranteed 2-day delivery. I avoid ParcelFarce - motto "We can break an anvil and lose an elephant".
  18. tauzero
    [quote name='steve-soar' post='860987' date='Jun 8 2010, 01:53 PM']If the show had been done in a more schoastic manner and was screened on say, BBC4, then God know what kind of atrocity would have occurred. "And the award for The Greatest Bassist Of All Time, voted by you, BBC4 viewers goes to...." Anyone?[/quote] It wouldn't have been bassist, it would have been keyboard player (the other invisible ones), and the winner would have been Brian Cox.
  19. tauzero
    I think I broke an A string once. It was so long ago, I can't remember which bass it was on - either a Hayman or a Fender P. More recently broke the F string on the 7-string tuning up when I didn't notice that the tuner was trying to tune me to C, not F. It was only there as a backup and I play the set on a 5-string, so using it for a couple of numbers as a 6-string (I brought it with me, I might as well give it an outing) was no problem.
  20. tauzero
    Spalted.
  21. tauzero
    I had some T-shirts done a couple of years ago by a company called GP Work & Leisure at a very reasonable price. The cost for (IIRC) 20 shirts was £20 setup, £2/shirt print, £2-50 shirt - Fruit of the Loom valueweight shirts. Website is [url="http://www.gpwl.co.uk"]here[/url] - best bet is to email them or ring them (especially as the website is rubbish).
  22. tauzero
    A neutral for Interparcel. I sent a sound module, collected on Tuesday 1st June, the day after a bank holiday. I used the HDNL option. Delivery was finally made to Dumfries (hardly the back of beyond) in the early evening of 7th June. Interparcel didn't respond to an email query from me. HDNL don't have an email contact, only phone - was going to ring them today but I didn't need to. So I'm not impressed by Interparcel's customer care - there wasn't even an automated response email. And I'm not impressed by HDNL, either by their ability to deliver something in a reasonable timescale (it's 2 days non-guaranteed, so 7 days is crap) or by the fact that there's no email contact for them.
  23. tauzero
    [quote name='urbanx' post='860465' date='Jun 7 2010, 10:32 PM']...until someone runs a DC current through it...[/quote] As the input capacitor would block that, only an amp that was already broken would be broken by that.
  24. tauzero
    I switched over to it, saw Woss was hosting it, and switched over to something else. On a non-bass aspect, I couldn't work out why every other member of the 'Oo got in but Daltrey, one of the finest voices of all time, was ignored, especially when that wobbly-voiced squawker Plant got in.
  25. tauzero
    [quote name='manwithouthat' post='858627' date='Jun 6 2010, 03:10 AM']Hello from the States. I love my MV-30 - but it needs some parts. Did you have any luck selling yours?[/quote] Yes, sold it on ebay. Might be worth you checking out the mv-30studiom group on Yahoo! Groups ( [url="http://groups.yahoo.com"]http://groups.yahoo.com[/url] ).
×
×
  • Create New...